What can go in your green bin?
If you live in Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough, and have a green wheeled bin, please recycle all your food waste in here, with your garden waste.
If you live in Warwick or Stratford-on-Avon District, or Rugby or North Warwickshire borough, food waste is collected weekly in a separate kerbside caddy.
Please do not put plastic, or biodegradable bags into your green bin as they contaminate the load and will not compost.
All biodegradable packaging is not necessarily compostable, but a compostable packaging is always biodegradable.
Find out more information and your collection date.
Why you should put food waste in your green bin
There are many reasons why recycling your food waste is extremely worthwhile.
- If everyone in Warwickshire recycled their food waste, rather than putting it in the rubbish bin, it could save around £1m every year.
- Recycled food waste can be used on farmers fields as a soil improver, reducing the need for fertilisers. Food waste that is collected separately is used to produce energy for the grid.
- By recycling food waste it reduces the volume of greenhouse gases, thought to be a major contributor to climate change, in the atmosphere.
What happens to your food waste?
Kitchen caddy bins
To get your kitchen caddy bin please contact your local district or borough council.
Food and garden waste placed in the green bin in Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough will be processed at an in-vessel composting facility in Warwickshire.
Food waste placed in the kerbside food waste bin in Warwick and Stratford-on-Avon Districts, and Rugby and North Warwickshire Boroughs is processed at an anaerobic digestion plant where the gases produced in the decomposition of the food waste are captured and burned to make power to feed into the national grid.
Using your kitchen caddy
- Line your caddy with a plastic bag such as an old bread bag or fruit and veg bag, newspaper or a compostable caddy liner. All bags and newspaper are removed during the first stage of processing.
- Place all food waste into the caddy, including fruit and vegetable waste, cooked food, bones, meat and fish.
- Wrap food in newspaper if you prefer.
- When you are ready to empty the caddy, tie the top of the bag.
- If you live in Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough, please place in your green wheeled bin. If you live in either Warwick or Stratford-on-Avon District, or Rugby or North Warwickshire Borough, place in your kerbside food waste caddy.